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DEMOCRACY ELECTIONS
The 32-page booklet entitled 'Decline for Germany, not an Alternative' launches a number of wild claims about the country's main opposition party.
ENERGY AND CLIMATE
Most of the new capacity, though, came from heavily subsidised renewable energy plants, especially photovoltaics and wind turbines.
EU BUBBLE FROM THE CAPITALS
A seemingly irrelevant vote in the state parliament of Saxony has turned into a showcase of the hysteria affecting much of Germany’s political class.
BUREAUCRACY ELECTIONS
The right-wing Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has announced it will replace up to 200 civil servants in the state of Saxony-Anhalt – if it comes into power following…
CULTURE WAR IMMIGRATION
A new study from Austria has revealed a shocking degree of religious indoctrination and anti-western sentiment among young Muslims in Vienna.
DEMOCRACY EU BUBBLE
The European Commission is being ridiculed for a meme portraying people critical of the European Union’s development as conspiracy theorists.
ELECTIONS
German establishment politicians seem increasingly desperate to avoid a win for the right-wing Alternative for Germany party (AfD) at the general election in the eastern German…
IMMIGRATION
Germany’s right-wing AfD party has submitted a controversial proposal to parliament aimed at better reflecting differences in delinquency between ethnic Germans and those…
CORRUPTION EU BUBBLE
Ukraine has got back cash and gold worth €70 million that had been confiscated by Hungarian authorities in March 2026.
IMMIGRATION
The Islamisation of Vienna’s public school system is progressing rapidly.
INDUSTRIAL POLICY
German biotech company Biontech has announced it will cease the production of Covid-19 vaccines in Germany and close down most of its domestic production sites.
BUREAUCRACY
While employment in once key industrial sectors is in decline Germany is seeing a significant increase in people working for the state.
EU BUBBLE FROM THE CAPITALS
German federal chancellor Friedrich Merz (Christian Democratic Union, CDU) has publicly dashed hopes of many CDU conservatives for a premature end of his current government…
ENERGY AND CLIMATE FREE SPEECH
The University of Vienna in Austria has abruptly cancelled an award ceremony for one of the country’s most prominent authors and mathematicians, Rudolf Taschner.
BUREAUCRACY CONSUMER RIGHTS
The Social Democratic Party (SPD) in the German capital of Berlin has announced plans to set up a special investigative unit to examine thousands of rental contracts for supposedly…
ELECTIONS FROM THE CAPITALS
Members of Germany’s ruling Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) in a small town near Frankfurt have caused a nationwide scandal by joining forces with their colleagues…
EU BUBBLE FROM THE CAPITALS
US President Donald Trump has harshly criticised Germany’s Chancellor after the latter apparently lauded the negotiation tactics of the Islamist regime of Iran.
EU BUBBLE FINANCE
Several high-ranking German economists have expressed scorn and criticism of Germany’s federal budget plan for 2026 to 2030.
CULTURE WAR IMMIGRATION
A children and youth charity from Berlin is warning that radical Islam is increasingly making inroads at German schools.
EU BUBBLE IMMIGRATION
Several NGOs have filed a complaint with the European Commission against Austria’s 2025 decision to halt family reunification for asylum seekers.
ELECTIONS EU BUBBLE
Austria’s Vice Chancellor Andreas Babler (Social Democratic Party, SPÖ) is facing outrage and ridicule after he inadvertently used a notorious Nazi slogan in a speech ahead…
FINANCE IMMIGRATION
The city administration of Hamburg has spent €593 million between 2022 and 2025 to pay for hotel rooms for asylum seekers.
DEMOCRACY ELECTIONS
The State parliament of Saxony-Anhalt has approved a major reform of the eastern German state’s constitution — supposedly aimed at “strengthening democracy” ahead…
CORRUPTION FINANCE
Germany’s finance ministry has countered claims by leading economists who accused the government of having misspent most of a debt-financed “special fund” (SVIK) meant…
IMMIGRATION
Some groups of foreigners in Germany are much more likely to commit violent crimes as Germans themselves, new numbers from the German police show.
ENERGY AND CLIMATE FINANCE
The German economics ministry has significantly lowered its growth outlook for Europe’s largest economy, halving its forecast for 2026 and also revising up inflation expectations,…
ENERGY AND CLIMATE
Russia will stop the transfer of crude oil from Kazakhstan to a major German refinery via the Druzhba pipeline in May, 2026.
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Germany’s flagship carrier Lufthansa is set to cut 20,000 flights in the coming months to save on jet fuel and deal with additional costs from airline staff strikes.
EU BUBBLE FINANCE
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (Christian Democratic Union, CDU) has spoken out in favour of far-reaching reforms of the country’s creaking public pension system.
ELECTIONS
The Reservist Association of the German Armed Forces has called for the government to raise the age limit for army reservists from 65 to 70 years.